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  1. How to Stop Test Run While Executive Automation Test Cases.

    I want to stop my Test Run some times. --

    For exp. I have 10 test cases, after completion of two test case run, I wan to stop my test run to make some changes.

    CodedUI /VS 2012 Ult does not have any such functionality. Please let me know how to stop the test run.

    Regards,
    Diwan Bisht

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      0 comments  ·  Visual Studio Ultimate  ·  Flag idea as inappropriate…  ·  Admin →
    • Allow us to Delete a class we created.

      I used to added a new class by mfc wizard, but later I found it of no use. But there's no way to delete the class. So I had to remove the documents of the class(***.cpp, ***.h). But when I try to copy the project to another place, It can't be built anymore. So I sincerely suggest that add a new operation of delete a class safely.
      Thankyou!

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      • Microsoft should give support for windows XP.....

        Official. Windows XP is 10+ years old, and developer tools as far as running on a host we need to support such old technologies like windows xp vista etc . You can still produce applications with VS 2012 that will run on XP, and thats the important part.

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          • Sequence diagrams that are saved in a model should be re-generateable

            When a sequence diagram is generated and saved in a model it should be able to be re-generated when the class the diagram is based on is changed. The only way in VS2010 to update a sequence diagram after the class it is based off of is changed it to create a new sequence diagram and save it over the one that was created before.

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            • Globally Define Custom Graph

              Suppose we create load test and create 2 custom graph, one for WebSer1 and one DBSer2 and added counters which need to be shown there. We create same type of load test for 10 times for different scripts. Now suppose in future, environment changes, now servers are WebSer2 and DBSer2.
              Now we need to go in all load test and define custom graph again.
              I want to manage graph from single point. I want to define graph name and counters which need to be shown on graph from single point.

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                • Provide project namespace refactoring

                  When editing the Default Namespace in the Application project settings for a Visual Studio project file, there is no option to automatically refactor the corresponding namespaces in the associated class files to match the new default namespace. This is especially useful when downloading samples from MSDN which often have namespaces such as MSDN.Samples.<Project Name> which do not correspond to namespace standards within a business organization.

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                  • Trash and then Rewrite Visual Studio

                    Visual Studio 2010 is the worst software I've had the displeasure to have to use. It does stupid stuff all on its own and have to shut it down ALL THE TIME.

                    It's obvious Microsoft is on the way OUT

                    AOS is its replacement.

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                    • add a relation between a page and a transaction in the LoadTest Database

                      The current LoadTest database does not have a realtion between pages and transactions. You can look at both but you can't discover which pages beong with which transactions. You can see which test case has pages and whih test case has transactions, but you can't see the heirarchy of all three.

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                      • I would like to see feature added to the testing functionality.

                        Can you allow a way to maybe get test results of builds with different select values. For example, view test results with these options: "View All", "View Failed", or "View Completed". Most of the time you are viewing results to see what failed, but have to wait for every test to load. This might take a while if your application is using an advanced testing systeml like we do. It would be a great feature to have! Thanks, and keep up the great work! - Casey Pharr

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                        • visual studio 2010 connects to team foundation server on visualstudio.com

                          Currently, I am unable to connect to visualstudio.com using VS2010. I receive a "non authorive" error without explanation. I could not find anywhere on the site to post this error.

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                          • Add a Checkbox(Select/Remove All) to Check out screen

                            I think a screen-shot is better~

                            On the screen Check Out, when I check out a proj file, it list all files and checked, but what I am want is the file proj only need to check out, so I need to uncheck all other files by manual, it's very sad.

                            So I think why not add a Checkbox on the top to check/uncheck all items?

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                            • Verify deletion of files when publishing web project

                              Being a junior programmer, I do not have much experience with vs2010. I assumed publishing my first solo web project to my desktop would create a seperate folder. The 'Delete files prior to publish' option was selected from a previous project, and when I selected publish, my entire desktop was wiped clean. Folders gigabytes in size and completely unrelated to my project were deleted. Seems like a serious consequence for such an oversight. Perhaps the publishing wizard could verify file deletion, especially if it's gigabytes of data, on the desktop at that. What if I had of published it to…

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                              • Enable custom or manual sorting attributes and operators on UML Class Diagrams

                                The UML Class Diagrams automatically sort the attributes and operators alphabetically; however there is often a need to manually alter the default sort order to provide logical groupings. This becomes very useful when exporting the diagram for use on PowerPoint or other documents.

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                                • German: Don't localize things too technically because it could make things worse!

                                  I stumbled over the following log while I was creating a new project in Team Foundation Server:

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                                  “2013-02-02T15:01:14 | Modul: Internal | Team Foundation Server Proxy wurde abgerufen. | Abschlusszeit: 0 Sekunden
                                  2013-02-02T15:01:14 | Modul: Internal | Die Vorlageninformationen für den Team Foundation Server-Computer "vwin8devde\DefaultCollection" wurden vom Team Foundation Server-Computer abgerufen. | Abschlusszeit: 0.0468704 Sekunden
                                  2013-02-02T15:01:14 | Modul: Wizard | IAuthorizationService-Proxy wurde abgerufen. | Abschlusszeit: 0 Sekunden
                                  2013-02-02T15:01:15 | Modul: Wizard | Berechtigungen zur Projekterstellung abgerufen | Abschlusszeit: 0.0937416 Sekunden
                                  2013-02-02T15:02:02 | Modul: Engine | Thread: 14 | Das neue Projekt wird mit der Methodik “MSF for Agile Software…

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                                  • Add/remove break points in each methods of a class or file

                                    Is it possible to add/remove break points in each methods of a class or file in single click. If so then it will be very beneficial for those who want to modify existing code and want to know the flow of an Application.

                                    Thanks.

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                                    • Just as in old versions add the template of 'web service page' in the 'add new item' menu' which is missing in VS 11

                                      Just as in old versions add the template of 'web service page' in the 'add new item' sub-menu which is missing in VS 11

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                                      • Hi, while handcoding certain scenarios on my website, I faced an issue regarding parameterizing UITestControl objects, on which Mouse.Click

                                        Hi, while handcoding certain scenarios on my website, I faced an issue regarding parameterizing UITestControl objects, on which Mouse.Click is performed. For eg:- Mouse.Click(this.UIMap.UIParentDocument.UIParentWindow.UISubWindow.UIChildElement); I wanted to pass "this.UIMap.UIParentDocument.UIParentWindow.UISubWindow.UIChildElement" as a parameter through xml or csv file, and then do a TestContext.DataRow to it and obtain a string and type cast it to UITestControl object reference. But its not working. So if anyone could help with any workaround or other possibilities, my concern is to mouse click on elements passed fromexternal csv or xml file(ofcourse after adding them as UIObjects to my solution through coded UI test builder).

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                                        • Now a days the old vb application can be converted to .NET in market tools available to convert VB.NET Code to C#.NET Provide Convertor

                                          Now a days the old vb application can be converted to .NET, in market tools available to convert VB.NET Code to C#.NET Or F#
                                          so provide the default convertor.

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